Massive Statue of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Found in City Slum

>Ramses II is one of the ancient world's most famous leaders. He ruled Egypt from 1279 to 1213 B.C., making his 60-year-long-rule one of the longest in ancient Egypt. His military exploits expanded Egypt's reach as far east as modern Syria and as far south as modern Sudan.

>The growth and prosperity seen in Egypt at the time earned him the title "Ramses the Great."

>Excavation will continue in Cairo and, if the remaining pieces can restore the statue, it will be erected at the Grand Egyptian Museum, which is set to open in 2018.

>The neighborhood in which the statue was discovered is in the eastern part of the city and was built over the ancient city of Heliopolis. The city was so named because it served as the center of worship for the ancient Egyptian sun god Re.

>Ramses was a chief worshiper of Re. He commissioned a number of temples in Heliopolis to be built for worshipping the sun god.

>It's also believed Ramses II may have been the pharaoh from the biblical Book of Exodus from whom Moses demanded the release of his people.
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>In 2006, archaeologists discovered one of the largest sun temples in Cairo under a marketplace. It was found to house a number of statues of Ramses II weighing as much as five tons. One such statue depicted the pharaoh seated and wearing a leopard's skin, indicating that he might have served as a high priest of Re when the temple was built.

>Much of what was once Heliopolis is now covered with residential buildings. Researchers believe many more remains of the ancient world lie hidden under the wider city of Cairo.

Cool I hope this leads to finding more stuff

>>120240
>>It's also believed Ramses II may have been the pharaoh from the biblical Book of Exodus from whom Moses demanded the release of his people.
They should really mention WHO believes that because every historian ever knows they were never in Egypt at all. The fuck is with Natgeo pandering to the religious?

>>120525
also the area the hebrews fled to was still within the egyptian empire, so it would have been like fleeing from texas to arizona to escape the US government. and as you said none of it ever happened and moses is a plagiarized character made up piece cloth from other older myths/legends

>Yet another Ramses II statue
fuckung repeats

Just kidding this is amazing, just whenyou tgink you've seen all of ancient Egypt

>>120239
That's a trap

A month from now ISIS destroys the statue claiming it's a graven image of a false god. And in doing so erases another piece of human history.

>>121329
>ISIS in egypt
cuckservatives, everyone